“Ta-Nehisi”
Is this guy’s/gal’s name some kind of take off on the old Nehi soda line? Or is it some American Indian nomenclature I don’t recognize? Or his/her Mom heard the name on a sci-fi fantasy show and thought it sounded neat? What gives with these outer space names?
The thing is that Tay-Tay here, despite having been given an African name
(a name for Nubia in ancient Egyptian) is no more African than I am, which is to say, not at all. He was born in Baltimore fer chrissakes! He lives in a pretend world where the poor slaves still suffer under the whips of their white masters.